If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.

Once you've opened yourself up, it's best to go all the way.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.